Our Board Members

Portes has been feeding colonies outside Troy Towers since 2007. In 2012 his family lost a cat of 21 years, and when he tried to do something in memory of this great cat, he found nothing in Union City to support organized and sustainable cat activities. As a result, he approached other cat loving friends and this led to the TNR of the colonies around Troy Towers. We all did not want these efforts to be isolated, one time activities and wanted other cat loving individuals to use what we had obtained (traps, holding space, organization). As a result they led to the formation of the UCFCC to ensure that those successful initial efforts could be replicated to other areas of Union City and adjacent towns.

He is a Principal at Best Project Management, www.bestpjm.com, which he founded and own. He taught at the graduate and undergraduate levels in four universities, including Stevens Institute of Technology, where he was rated as one of the best project management professors, and Fordham University.  He has over twenty years of managerial experience, and very successfully managed a $240 million project with 14,000 activities  in Summit, NJ. He published more than ten managerial and technical publications, some of them awarded by his peers and by professional associations. He holds M.Eng. and M.P.S. degrees from Cornell University, one MBA from Catholic University (Santo Domingo) and B.Eng. and B.S. degrees (both Magna Cum Laude, first in his class)  from the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo, the oldest university in this continent. He speaks Spanish and French.